Aug
11
2012
Demos // Unity3d

Fake Dynamic Tree Shadows

Author An article by mgear    Comments 4 Comments

Tree shadows are created for terrain trees in Startup(),
with adjustable strength, shadow shape, shadow color etc. (unity indie)

Ideas/Todo:
– Animated shadow? (based on terrain wind settings or just random..?)
– Different shadows for different trees (Get treesize, type..)
– Angled shadows (currently its directly from up..)
– Shadow rotation with day cycle?
– Splat shadow or darker terrain texture also.

Features:
– Currently it only adds 9 drawcalls (doesnt matter how many trees you have)

Webplayer:
http://unitycoder.com/upload/demos/fakeTreeShadows1/

Download source:
later..

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4 Comments + Add Comment

  • xiagedd 16/10/2012 at 11:35

    aaaa

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  • Xcalibur 14/12/2012 at 00:56

    Looks nice, looking forward to the future improvements. How does it work? With projectors?

    Reply
    • mgear 14/12/2012 at 11:00

      Yes, using projector.

      Reply
  • Terry Morgan 22/07/2013 at 19:40

    I got tree shadows (once) by flagging ‘hard shadows’ on my directional light, but I’d like a backup
    plan, can you post the source please?

    Reply

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